Bill Nye Takeover

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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How can we build a new Moon program while slashing science funding? Bill Nye takes the host’s chair alongside Chuck Nice to tackle one of the most urgent issues facing our future in space with Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, who’s been tracking and analyzing NASA’s funding for years.

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0:00.0	Coming up on StarTalk, it's about time we talk space policy.
0:04.3	Well, Neil, Neil, I have some thoughts on that.
0:07.4	Bill Nye here, I will be guest hosting this week.
0:11.1	Turn it up loud.
0:13.9	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:16.4	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:22.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:26.7	This is StarTalk.
0:29.3	I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:33.8	And on today's show, we have...
0:36.6	We have me.
0:54.5	I'm Bill Nye. You're Chuck. Nice. Oh, damn. Well, it was pretty good, man. Did you... It was compelling. Yeah, it was compelling. Yeah, it's compelling. I won't say you have a future in it, but it was pretty good. With an impression like that, Chuck, you have a future in selling women's shoes. That could be.
0:56.5	So with that in mind, we now segue seamlessly to talking about how we explore space practically.
1:06.3	And by this, I mean, today we're going to talk about funding space exploration.
1:13.0	And right now we're at a remarkable time in the history of NASA,
1:18.1	the National Erinonics and Space Administration,
1:20.4	where people want to cut the budget for science just about in half.
1:25.7	And whose problem is that?
1:28.0	Everybody's problem.
1:29.7	And so today, as you may know, Neil deGrasse Tyson was once on the board of the
1:36.2	Planetary Society, as am I even now.
1:40.6	Yes.
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